Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth. It is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about 1,230 km (760 mi), which is...
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outer core whose flow generates the Earth's magnetic field, and a solid inner core. Scientific understanding of the internal structure of Earth is based...
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Earth's outer core is a fluid layer about 2,260 km (1,400 mi) thick, composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core and below...
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Inner core super-rotation is a hypothesized eastward rotation of the inner core of Earth relative to its mantle, for a net rotation rate that is usually[clarification...
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known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth. The seismic discontinuity in the speed of...
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Raymond W. Bernard's 1969 book The Hollow Earth. Dyson sphere Earth's inner core Expanding Earth Flat Earth Hades Hollow Moon List of topics characterized...
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water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering 70.8% of Earth's crust. The remaining 29.2% of Earth's crust is land, most...
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2004, p. 48. Gubbins, David; et al. (May 19, 2011), "Melting of the Earth's inner core", Nature, 473 (7347): 361–63, Bibcode:2011Natur.473..361G, doi:10...
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Earth is proposed to have an innermost inner core, distinct from its inner core. It is surrounded by the inner core, and is composed of solid iron in...
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Bazhanova et al., who found that at pressures and temperatures of the Earth's inner core only FeH, FeH 3 and an unexpected compound FeH 4 are thermodynamically...
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S2CID 206538202. Earth's Core–Mantle Boundary Has Core-Rigidity Zone Audrey Slesinger (January 2001), "Earth's interior: Redefining the Core–Mantle Boundary"...
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the Earth's mantle Hf/W ratio places Earth's core as having segregated within 25 million years. Several factors control segregation of a metal core including...
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drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the rotation of the Earth's core. The film was released on...
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Planetary core, the center of a planet Earth's inner core Earth's outer core Stellar core, the region of a star where nuclear fusion takes place Solar core Core...
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suggest that Earth's inner core—a solid center distinct from the liquid outer core—is freezing and growing out of the liquid outer core due to the gradual...
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Iron (section Earth's crust)
most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, being mainly deposited...
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allows seismologists to determine some physical properties of the Earth's inner core. In 1830, the mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson presented to the...
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Geothermal gradient (category Structure of the Earth)
but only the outer core is postulated to exist in a molten or fluid state, and the temperature at Earth's inner core/outer core boundary, around 3,500...
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the Earth’s inner core and lastly the solid mantle above, rotates slower than the Earth’s inner core. Souriau predicted that the Earth’s outer core was...
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Tarzan at the Earth's Core is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, serialized in September 1929 to March 1930, the thirteenth in his series...
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Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts...
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Arwen (20 February 2011). "Reconciling the Hemispherical Structure of Earth's Inner Core With its Super-Rotation". Nature Geoscience. 4 (4): 264–267. Bibcode:2011NatGe...
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Carbon cycle (section Carbon in the core)
core. In fact, studies using diamond anvil cells to replicate the conditions in the Earth's core indicate that iron carbide (Fe7C3) matches the inner...
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Meteorology (Aristotle) (section Spherical Earth)
treatise, Aristotle outlines two theories: The universe is spherical The Earth’s inner core is composed by the orbits of heavenly bodies The universe has two...
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August 8, 2012. Density of the Earth, wolframalpha.com, archived from the original on October 17, 2013 Density of Earth's core, wolframalpha.com, archived...
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Seismic velocity structure (section Inner core)
enabled more accurate modeling of the Earth's internal velocity structure. Recent progress focuses on the inner core's velocity features and applying methods...
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pp. 153–154. ISBN 978-0-19-518169-2. see e.g. Hrvoje Tkalčić, The Earth's Inner Core, Cambridge University Press (2017), p. 2. Cornu, A.; Baille, J. B...
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https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been What's the hottest Earth's ever been? Rintamäki, Hannu (2007). "Human responses...
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(1996). "Seismological evidence for differential rotation of the Earth's inner core". Nature. 382 (6588): 221–224. doi:10.1038/382221a0. Zhang, Jian;...
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Geophysics (redirect from Earth physics)
the motion of this highly conductive fluid generates the Earth's field. Earth's inner core, however, is solid because of the enormous pressure. Reconstruction...
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